All are welcome here!

What we believe 
Vision Statement

With God’s love at our core, we partner with diverse faith communities and local organizations to actively create paths of peace, justice, compassion, fellowship and inclusion.

Purpose Statement

We are a faith community, growing together as disciples of Jesus Christ, courageously sharing God's love with each other and the world.

 

 WE ARE A CHURCH THAT WELCOMES YOU!

 
We are a living, breathing, growing, welcoming, progressive Christian community right in the heart of Seattle's Alki Beach neighborhood. We believe that faith is a journey, not a destination, and we are blessed to share the journey with each other. We are 90-somethings and 20-somethings, toddlers and infants, and a lot of us somewhere in between. We are single, married and partnered; introverted and outgoing; LGBTQ+, cis, hetero and non-binary … bring your whole self. All are welcome here! 
 
We don't believe Christianity is the only way, but it's the way we've been called to follow, and we are trying to live it with as much integrity and joy as we can.
We are a church where Jesus the healer meets Jesus the revolutionary, where together we grow a just and peaceful world.
 

Alki UCC is an Open and Affirming Faith Community

Jesus welcomed everyone, and we do, too. Jesus conveyed his and God's merciful and compassionate love for all of us - part of the one human family. We affirm everyone’s God-created uniqueness and holiness in this world. We value and celebrate diversity, investing ourselves as an active social justice community in the healing of prejudice, exclusion and hatred.
                                                              - From Alki UCC's 1998 Open and Affirming Statement 
 
We who cherish Alki United Church of Christ as our spiritual home have formed a community of faith in the loving presence of Jesus Christ. Believing that all people are created equal and have the right to seek God's presence in a loving community of faith, we proclaim that all who seek compassion, respect and love for their fellow beings are welcome into this church, regardless of race, age, gender, gender expression, physical ability, level of education, opinion, social position or sexual orientation.
-Open and Affirming Proclamation, updated Fall 2020

 

From National UCC Racial Justice Minister, Rev Dr Velda Love:

The United Church of Christ stands in solidarity with the creation narrative in Genesis 1:26-27, which clearly outlines what matters to God — all of humankind and a just world for all. God created humankind in God’s image and likeness, women and men are image bearers, sharing equal status as human beings. God did not create race, racism, superior groups of humans, and hierarchical and hegemonic social structures.
God does not sanction human suffering, including America’s involvement in:

  •  Inhumane social confinement due to mass incarceration and surveillance of communities of color

  •  Global confiscation of another culture's land and resources

  • Human trafficking and the enslavement and sexual violence and assault against women and children

  • Deportation and the separation of families from immigrant communities

  • Police brutality and militarized tactics and abuses resulting in the murder of people of color

  • Using global armaments and acts of terrorism on innocent civilians domestically and abroad

  • Supporting White Christian supremacy over and against non-Christian faith communities

 “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but the spirit of power, of courage and resolution,

to meet difficulties and dangers; the spirit of love which will carry us through opposition.” 2 Timothy 1:7

In Solidarity

Alki UCC stands in solidarity with those protesting police brutality and all forms of racism that have harmed and murdered BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color). Alki UCC calls for the dismantling of systemic racism in our country, and for all of us to personally work on our implicit bias and prejudices. We stand with those who seek systemic change in our country, who boldly envision an equitable world in which justice and peace rain down on all its peoples. We pray for The Kingdom of Heaven to be realized on Earth, that all its abundance is indeed available to all; we pray for a society in which we honor, respect and support each other as Children of God, no matter one’s race, sexual orientation, gender, politics, ethnicity or tribe.

Belief in Action

Alki UCC joins West Seattle's Admiral UCC in their leadership of antiracism education. Admiral UCC is offering powerful opportunities for all to learn and grow in antiracist practice, led by Pastor Andrew Conley-Holcom. We invite you to participate in the online West Seattle Anti-Racist Book Club and the documentary film series Telling the Truth about Race.  

 Alki UCC and Admiral UCC are predominantly white congregations in predominantly white neighborhoods. We understand that the most important thing we can do is to grow our own antiracist practices and to advocate antiracist thought and action in our community.

Who Is the United Church of Christ?

Based in Cleveland, Ohio, the United Church of Christ has more than 5,000 churches throughout the United States. Rooted in the Christian traditions of congregational governance and covenantal relationships, each UCC setting speaks only for itself and not on behalf of every UCC congregation. UCC members and churches are free to differ on important social issues, even as the UCC remains principally committed to unity in the midst of our diversity.  Read more at www.ucc.org